Re: There's a length limit to AppleScripts (AS Editor 1.7)?
Re: There's a length limit to AppleScripts (AS Editor 1.7)?
- Subject: Re: There's a length limit to AppleScripts (AS Editor 1.7)?
- From: JollyRoger <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 09:37:42 -0600
It's amazing how long it's taking Apple to break the ancient 32K barrier in
their own script editor that they ship with their own OS. Drop Apple's
crummy editor. Graduate yourself and use Smile instead. Smile has no such
limit, and is in a lot of ways a better script editor.
JR
On 2/2/2002 10:47 PM, "Donald S. Hall" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I believe the Script Editor has a 32K character limit for the source text.
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You could break your script up into several different scripts in different
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files to get around this.
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>
Don
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> Just went to add another bit of code to my browser-cache cleaner script (for
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> NetScape 6.2.1) and received the following error on trying to paste the code
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> into the existing script:
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> Could not insert text because the text would be longer than its maximum
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> possible length.
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> Say what?
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> Does anyone know if this is a document line length limit or a character
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> limit?
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> Is there an obvious way around it (such as dividing up the code into multiple
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> scripts and then having a master script run them)?
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> Thanks
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> =-= Marc